Continent · 14 countries
Where South America's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of South America. By land, Colombia holds 6.4%. By people, it holds 18%. Argentina goes the other way, from 16% of the land to 9.0% of the people. By GDP, Argentina punches above its population: 9.0% of the people, 12% of the economy.
| Country | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 48 | 42 | 41 |
| Colombia | 6.4 | 18 | 19 |
| Peru | 7.2 | 14 | 14 |
| Argentina | 16 | 9.0 | 12 |
| Venezuela | 5.1 | 5.7 | 1.9 |
| Chile | 4.9 | 3.8 | 5.6 |
| Ecuador | 1.4 | 3.5 | 2.4 |
| Bolivia | 5.7 | 2.5 | 1.2 |
| Paraguay | 2.1 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| Uruguay | 0.87 | 0.70 | 1.0 |
| French Guiana | 0.39 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Guyana | 1.2 | 0.10 | 0.50 |
| Suriname | 0.97 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Falkland Islands | 0.19 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
How the map is made
Regions are drawn on an equal-area grid of about 1,000 blocks. For land, each region keeps the blocks its territory covers. For people and GDP, the country is reshaped so every region gets a whole number of blocks in proportion to its share (Hamilton's largest-remainder method), keeping neighbours next to each other. Then every block is matched to one block on the next map, so you watch the same thousand blocks rearrange.
Grids: popgrid by Josep Ferrer (MIT). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Population: national censuses where curated, GHS-POP 2025 (JRC, European Commission) elsewhere. GDP: Kummu et al. 2025 gridded GDP PPP (CC BY 4.0). Built by Crafter Station.